Self adjusting garment hanger



-March 27, 1956 G- H. BEIERLE 2,739,744

SELF ADJUSTING GARMENT HANGER Filed Jan. 7, 1955 G. 11. .Bqa'erle INVENTOR BY W.

ATTORNEYS United tates Patent SELF ADJUSTING GARMENT HANGER Gottfried H. Beierle, North Sacramento, Calif. Application January 7, 1955, Serial No. 480,433

1 Claim. (Cl. 223-95) This invention relates to a garment hanger which is self adjustable by the weight of a garment depending therefrom.

It is a primary object of this invention to provide a self adjusting skirt and pants hanger having arms pivoted and slidable on a support engageable with the portion of a garment depending from the arms. The arms are provided with end portions engageable with the garment irrespective of whether the garment may be a skirt or a pair of pants. The arms are pivoted at one end of the supporting member while being connected together by a slidable pin slidable along the length of the arms.

It is a primary object of this invention to provide a self adjusting garment hanger of the kind to be more particularly described hereinafter to hold the garment taut or tight at all times While suspended from the hanger to preserve the garment in its desirable neatly pressed or ironed condition while being stored between the times of wearing.

Other and further objects and advantages of the invention will be hereinafter described and the novel features thereof defined in the appended claim.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a self adjusting garment hanger constructed according to an embodiment of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the garment hanger shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view, partly broken away and partly in section, of the outer end of a modified form of garment engaging arm.

In order to support garments as skirts, pants and the like in small places the self adjusting garment hanger has been designed for storing the garment hanger in a re stricted space at the time the garment is not depending from it and still extensible outwardly far enough to properly support the garment when the garment is to be stored in a closet or the like.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings the numeral shows a garment hanger constructed according to an embodiment of my invention. The garment hanger is normally disposed in a folded position with the arms thereof overlying and underlying the supporting member 11 before they are extended outwardly from one end of the supporting member 11.

Arms 12 are pivotally supported at one end thereof on one end of the supporting member 11 by a pivot pin 14 which extends through one end of each of the arms 12, one arm 12 being disposed on a side of the supporting member 11 as clearly shown in the drawings.

Each of the pivoted arms 12 may be formed of a plate made out of a sheet of metal material having an arcuate slot 16 cut therein substantially radially of the pivot pin ICe 2 14 in which a pin 17 is slidable for supporting the arms 12 onto the supporting member 11 in all their positions as-pivoted on the pivot pin 14. The slidable pin 17 is also slidable along the length of an elongated slot 18 in the supporting member 11 radially outwardly from the pivot pin 14.

Actually the arcuate slot 16 in the arm 12 is on a radius substantially the same-as a radius about the pivot pin 14 although one end of the slot 16 is adapted to be substantially aligned with the pin. As the arms 12 are pivoted about the pivot pin 14 by the weight of the garment secured to the outer ends thereof the movement of the arms 12 will be about the pivot pin 14 and further supported by the slidable pin 17.

As the garment hanger 10 is formed of sheet material books 20 are disposed on the outer end of each of the arms 12 remote from the pivot pin 14 which are engageable in the garment suspended thereby.

A supporting hook 19 is secured to one end of the supporting member 11 much in the same manner as the supporting hook on a conventional type of garment hanger and for such same purpose.

For substantially hanging a garment on the garment hanger 10 there is provided an overlying fiat and bendable hook 21 disposed in substantially overlying relation to the hooks 20 for substantially further hooking a cuff of a pants leg on the hook 21 and its associated book 20 formed on the supporting member 12 as clearly noted in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. The hooks 21 are secured at their inner ends to the arms 12 by means of rivets or fastening means 22.

Any form of book or garment engaging member 21 may be disposed on each of the arms 12 remote from the pivot pin 14 for engaging the garment to be supported on the supporting member 11.

These hooks engage into the cuff of the slacks or pants for suspending the pants in an upside down position at their full length. Laying the pants down flat, this hanger is then inserted between the leg portion of the pants or slacks at the cuff end. These hooks 20 and 21 would then be inserted into the cult on the inside portion of the leg and then the pants or slacks are suspended in that manner. The weight of the pants or slacks makes them self adjusting to any width of cuff while applying tension throughout all of the material permitting the pants to dewrinkle and retain their original true shape.

Although the hooks 21 in engagement with the garment to be hung from the garment hanger will not be sharpened or otherwise formed in a manner to penetrate the garment there is disclosed in Fig. 3 of the drawings a portion of a modified form of garment engaging member. While the garment hanger is formed in substantially the same manner as the garment hanger described above, only the garment engaging portion is. shown as modified in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

A saw toothed edge 25 is formed on one edge of the flat sheet 26, the sheet 26 being pivoted on a supporting member, as the supporting member 11, in much the same manner as the arms described above.

A slidable pin 27 is engageable in an arcuate slot 28 in the sheet 26 so that this modified end of the arm 12 is operative in the manner of the arms 12 on the supporting member 11 as described above.

While the specific details of one embodiment of this invention have been herein shown and described, the invention is not confined thereto as changes and alterations thereof, said supporting member being provided with an elongated. islet extendinglongitudinally thereof,v .ania.

connecting pin loosely engaged in said slots of said arms and said supporting member, said pin being slidable in 5 said slots upon pivotal movement of said arms.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,393,632 Hartz Jan. 29, 1946 Mizer Aug. 5, 1941 fm n 

